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  • Compton Cowboys and California Love

    Multimedia artist Thompson-Hernández shares from his book, "The Compton Cowboys," and latest NPR podcast California Love. In Compton, California, 10 black riders on horseback cut an unusual profile, their cowboy hats tilted against the hot Los Angeles sun. They are the Compton Cowboys, their small ranch one of the very last in a formerly semirural area of the city that has been home to African American horse riders for decades. California Love is a new audio memoir about Walter's coming of age in Los Angeles.

  • 2021 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium

    The 2021 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium Series: Transit in Transition considers the current state of public transit in the United States and transit’s options for the future. The pandemic accelerated the pre-existing trend of declining ridership. Transit agencies have built fixed route and rapid transit infrastructure to serve commercial centers and downtowns, but expanding remote work brings uncertainty to recovery of demand in these areas.

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    Transit in Transition @ UCLA

    Covel Commons - Grand Horizon Room 330 DeNeve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Transit in Transition reconvenes at UCLA following a successful online series. This daylong event will continue to look at the challenges facing public transit in a time of intense uncertainty – with a focus on Los Angeles.

    $99 – $169

  • The Legacy of Martin Wachs

    DeCafe Perloff Hall 365 Portolo Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    For better than a half-century, Professor Martin Wachs was a leading educator, researcher, and influencer of transportation policy and planning at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the RAND Corporation. This afternoon event will bring together some of his many former students, colleagues, and friends to reflect on his influence and legacy as a teacher and mentor, as a planning and transportation scholar, as well as his dedication to influencing policy and practice for the better. UCLA DeCafe Perloff Hall 365 Portolo Plaza Schedule of Events This event will include a programmed portion with speakers, followed by a reception. 1:30 p.m. :: Welcoming Remarks & Reflection Brian D. Taylor, Professor and Director, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies 1:45 p.m. :: Marty’s Influence as Teacher and Mentor Cornelius Nuworsoo, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Megan Ryerson, University of Pennsylvania Paul Sorenson, Cambridge Systematics Gian-Claudia Sciara, University of Texas, Austin Moderator: Asha Weinstein Agrawal, San José State University 2:30 p.m. :: Marty’s Influence on Transportation and Planning Scholarship Evelyn Blumenberg, UCLA Genevieve Giuliano, University of Southern California Jonathan Levine, University of Michigan Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, UCLA Moderator: Brian Taylor, UCLA 3:45 p.m. :: Marty’s Influence on Policy and Practice Maria Mehranian, Cordoba Corporation Ryan Russo, [...]

  • California's Housing Crossroads

    California’s Housing Crossroads

    UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center 850 Willow Creek Rd, Lake Arrowhead, CA, United States

    California's Housing Crossroads The 32nd Annual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium High land costs, a shortage of homes, and income inequality have led to a cost-burdened population facing one of the nation’s worst housing crises, which is acutely felt in coastal job centers and near public transportation infrastructure. Housing policy is complex, but the solutions to the housing crisis don’t need to be. At this year's UCLA Arrowhead Symposium, we’ll focus on how to make these solutions happen in California. This invitation-only symposium is the go-to event for an in-depth examination of the interconnected planning and policy issues around transportation, land use, and the environment. Regular registration fee of $1,195 includes access to programming, 2 nights lodging, all meals and receptions, use of venue facilities. For more information about the event, along with scholarship opportunities to attend, please visit www.uclaarrowheadsymposium.org.

  • Biking while Black – Documentary Screening and Discussion

    James Bridges Theater 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, United States

    Biking while Black - Documentary Screening and Discussion Tuesday, Feb. 7, 20236:30 - 8:15 p.m. PSTJames Bridges Theater In a 30-minute documentary, BIKING WHILE BLACK: CONTINUING TO RIDE THROUGH DECRIMINALIZATION, DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND GENTRIFICATION incorporates narratives to dig deeper into solution-based storytelling and features the actions being taken by some of our leading Black bicyclists and BIPOC community-based organizations. Cast members are paving new roads to tackle the myths, the community safety conditions in Los Angeles, and celebrating Black joy on two wheels. Black and BIPOC lives continue to have an unseen connection to the realms of hope and resilience. Some of the key revelations that were spoken of during our interviews were on uplifting and educating our youth to become leaders and navigators in bicycling education and mechanics, safety education, and engagement, paired with mobility justice advocacy. The film connects these perspectives to transportation planning through speaking with agencies on the need to acknowledge, hire, and collaborate with community leaders who have been doing the work to help keep their multi-generational community members safe and informed. This second episode expands on the nine-minute short film, BIKING WHILE BLACK: HOW SAFE ARE BLACK LIVES BICYCLING? Post-screening discussion with director Yolanda Davis-Overstreet, [...]

  • Accessibility, Social Equity, and Contemporary Policy Debates

    California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA Campus 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Part of the Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture Series and Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series. Robert Cervero works in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has consulted on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide, most recently advising long-range planning in Dubai and Singapore. His most recent book, Beyond Mobility, won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award. Dr. Cervero was a member of Berkeley’s city and regional planning faculty from 1980 to 2016, where he twice served as Department Chair, was the inaugural holder of the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies, and directed both the University of California Transportation Center and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. More recently he has held visiting faculty appointments at Tongji University in Shanghai and NYU-Abu Dhabi. During his doctoral studies in urban planning at UCLA, he worked under the supervision of his long-time mentor, Martin Wachs. Martin Wachs’ seminal 1973 paper on accessibility as a social construct continues to influence urban planning policy and practice a half-century later. It also shaped a generation of research on, broadly speaking, the ‘transport-land use connection’, including my own. This talk probes a number of policy initiatives that implicitly [...]

  • UCLA ITS Downtown Forum: Transforming Transportation

    UCLA Downtown Los Angeles Forum: Transforming Transportation

    The California Endowment 1000 Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA, United States

    This in-person event showcased new research, analysis, and future research plans in TRACton: A Research Agenda For Just and Sustainable Transportation, a research and policy agenda that is a product of collaborative agenda-setting between UCLA researchers and members of community-based and advocacy organizations. Speakers and attendees pondered some of the pressing questions affecting transportation and land use in California: How does a research agenda developed in collaboration by researchers and community advocates differ from the status quo for transportation research? With an impending fiscal cliff and the continuing slog of post-pandemic ridership recovery, how will California transform public transit to achieve the state's strategic vision of transit oriented development with less reliance on personal automobiles. Climate change, housing affordability, unsafe roads, and the impending Olympic games all motivate the need to advance the pace and scale of transportation change. But achieving scale and agility require significant changes in public sector managerial approaches. What can transportation professionals do differently to transform transportation? How can transit agencies overcome labor shortages that impair services and ridership? What is known about racial injustices in siting freeways? What can communities do to repair the resultant harms? [...]

  • Human Transit, Book Talk by Jarrett Walker

    2355 Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate the revised edition of Jarrett Walker's Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. The new edition will deepen its explanations about the basic principles of public transit, informed by his work as a network planning consultant. New topics include the problem with specialization; the role of flexible or “demand response” services; how to know when to redesign your network; and responding to tech-industry claims that transit will soon be obsolete.  Finally, he added a major new section exploring the idea of access to opportunity as a core measure of transit’s success. RSVP HERE

  • Ciclovía at 50: Changing Street Cultures Across the World

    A Mini-Symposium from UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies December 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the ciclovía in Bogotá, Colombia, the original “open streets” event. Ciclovías close streets to cars and open them to people-powered mobility, creating what co-founder Jaime Ortíz Mariño calls the “world’s largest outdoor classroom.” The ciclovía covers over 75 miles every Sunday in Bogotá, and has spread to over 450 cities around the world. In this online event, we will hear from organizers in different cities about what the model has meant for their street cultures. Scholars will share their research on the event and its participants. Experts from the fields of public health and transportation will talk about the challenges and opportunities in funding non-infrastructure programming like this. Explore what cities around the globe have learned from the model, its role as a catalyst in changing street cultures in particular cities, and how ciclovías can help shift people to sustainable transportation. Session 1: Ciclovía Legacies In the first half of the mini-symposium, we'll focus on telling the story. A moderated discussion with ciclovía creators will reflect on the goals of open streets models and how ciclovías have changed transportation culture in specific cities. Following this, [...]

  • Transit, Belabored: Issues and Futures for the Transit Workforce

    Transit only works as well as the workforce behind it — those who operate vehicles; those who keep them in order, clean, and secure; and those who plan and manage the network. Frontline transit work can be especially satisfying and secure — but also stressful or unsafe. The pandemic laid bare these realities, as transit agencies across the country lacked workers, leading to canceled service in the short term and delayed service restoration in the long term. Ultimately, transit workforce issues are transit rider issues. Researchers, union organizers, and transit workers themselves will speak on the key workforce issues in the transit industry. Through both presentations and breakout discussions, speakers and participants together, from both the transportation and labor sectors, will work on ideas for how to improve transit work and secure it as a high-road job. Session 1: Introduction to Transit Labor: Current Issues and Coming Concerns Our opening conversation will explore the best practices and needed reforms to transform transit for the better. Join us in conversing with a research leader engaged in the big issues, solutions, and prospects for the future in transit labor, from operators to mechanics and white-collar employees. Session 2: Organizing to Improve [...]

  • Abundance Policy for Transportation and Housing

    Abundance is an emerging policy framework that emphasizes addressing affordability through increasing supply, overcoming regulatory burdens, and promoting innovation. Housing policy researcher Paavo Monkkonen and transportation policy researcher Juan Matute from UCLA participate in the Abundance Policy Research Consortium, a UC Berkeley-based group working to develop an evidence-based, fundamentals-first policy agenda for California focusing on expanding access to 12 human essentials. In this event, these policy experts will present frameworks for identifying scarcity problems and policy levers to improve housing and transportation affordability and supply. Nine in ten Californians live in megaregions with populations of 1 million or more. They are no strangers to the impacts of traffic congestion on their abilities to meet their areas of need: accessing jobs, education, healthcare, and other goods and services. California is in a cycle of auto-dependence that makes it hard for people to travel by car and hard to build new housing and buildings that bring people closer to their needs. Matute will present his view that escaping this scarcity trap and getting California moving again will require a targeted package of mobility abundance interventions. California built fewer housing units in the 2010s than in any decade since the 1940s, when World [...]

  • Event graphic with a stylized hand in Olympic/Paralympic ring colors holding a torch. In the background is a map of Southern California with icons of people walking, playing and taking transportation.

    UCLA Los Angeles Transportation Forum: Mega Events, Major Opportunities

    The California Endowment 1000 Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA, United States

    At the October 2024 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium, participants discussed how to create enduring public benefits from hosting major worldwide events in Los Angeles. The UCLA Los Angeles Transportation Forum will gather attendees to continue the conversation, understanding areas of progress and what else needs to be done in two legacy areas: enhancing LA’s transit system and universal access including fixing the city’s sidewalks. The Forum will also include a session on the late Donald Shoup's impact on practice. Resources Transforming Transit presentation L.A. Sidewalks presentation Denver Deserves Sidewalks presentation Candace Cable sidewalk video Claim AICP credits Report from the 2024 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium: Mega Events, Major Opportunities UCLA ITS Audio Edition episode Event Recordings and Photos Schedule Session Description Welcome An overview of the from the 2024 Arrowhead Symposium and legacy planning progress. Transforming Transit: The Power of Small Wins Los Angeles Metro will soon open a $9.5 billion [...]

  • A Celebration of the Life and Work of Donald Shoup

    UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join the Department of Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies as we celebrate and remember the life and work of distinguished professor of urban planning, trailblazing advocate for parking reform, gifted teacher, and friend to generations of UCLA students, faculty and staff, Donald Shoup. Friday, October 3, 2025 UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center Centennial Ballroom AB UCLA Campus 2:00 - 3:30 pm: The Shoup Doctrine Book Talk and Launch of the UCLA Center for Parking Policy 4:00 - 6:00 pm: Celebration of Donald Shoup's life and work (light refreshments) Learn more about Don's vast accomplishments, read some of his writings, view tributes from far and wide, and share your own memories on the UCLA Luskin tribute page for Don.

  • A graphic promoting the lecture "The Story of Peter Gallegos with Peter" Chesney

    Lecture Series: The Story of Peter Gallegos with Peter Chesney

    Live Stream

    Join us for a lecture based on original research documenting the experiences of Peter Gallegos, a blind Native American. Peter moved to Los Angeles from a Great Plains reservation with his seeing-eye dog. This talk will explore his mobility challenges and what happened after his dog was tragically killed by a hit-and-run driver.

  • Lecture Series: Indigenous Transportation Knowledge with Adonia Lugo

    Live Stream

    To envision alternative transportation futures, Adonia Lugo has collaborated with stewards of traditional Indigenous knowledge. This talk highlights their knowledge of the past and perspectives on how indigenous knowledge can shape the future of LA’s transportation systems.

  • Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements: Stories from Cities Across the Country

    A Mini-Symposium from UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies  Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025 In 2005, UCLA Professor Donald Shoup published “The High Cost of Free Parking,” revealing the shaky foundations of minimum parking requirements and explaining how these mandates cause problems far worse than the one they were intended to solve. Since then, more than 100 U.S. cities have eliminated any requirements to provide a minimum number of parking spaces from their zoning code, with hundreds more lifting their parking requirements in key areas like commercial corridors and historic downtowns. In this online event, planners, public officials, researchers, and advocates whose cities were among the first to eliminate parking requirements will share their experiences. Speakers will share why their cities chose to end parking minimums, the new development and opportunities these changes have made possible, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. After the speaker sessions, attendees are invited to participate in breakout room discussions to share their experiences and consider the effects of parking policies in their own communities. Session 1: Sharing City Experiences In this session, we’ll hear from local leaders about why their cities eliminated minimum parking requirements and see examples of new housing and small [...]